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The Virgin Suicides
The movie centers on five beautiful, dreamy Lisbon sisters, whose doomed fates indelibly marked the neighborhood boys who to this day continue to obsess over them. When 13-year-old Cecilia commits suicide, the family spirals downward into a creepy state of isolation...
17 December 1974, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 November 1944, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA
31 May 1982, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
9 July 1984, Denver, Colorado, USA
4 August 1967, Belleville, New Jersey, USA
22 December 1983, Stratford, Ontario, Canada
30 April 1982, Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA
December 29, 2010
Intense, imperfect movie about teen suicide.
August 07, 2008
Sofia Coppola's adaptation of Jeffery Eugenides' 1993 novel plays like a sweet, sad dream.
July 18, 2007
A very curious and eclectic piece of work.
October 21, 2006
An assured feature debut, this darkly humorous exploration of a tough subject benefits from an original narrative and the fact that the appealing cast consists of actors who are the same age as the characters they play.
December 31, 2003
A disarmingly poetic - and specifically female - vision of adolescence that it belongs in a category of its own.
July 18, 2007
Sofia Coppola tackles the issue of teenage suicide with an assured treatment in The Virgin Suicides, effectively employing a seriocomic tone.
January 01, 2000
This shimmery, darkly comic adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides' novel marks the assured, often inspired feature film debut of writer-director Sofia Coppola.
January 26, 2006
The tone of wistful regret and longing doesn't preclude a good deal of gentle humour. It's a restrained, subtly suggestive piece which disintegrates if you try to get a fix on it.
November 22, 2010
Sofia Coppola's compelling, ethereal fable about adolescent loss of innocence is claustrophobic and uncomfortable, but profoundly affecting and gently funny. "The Virgin Suicides" advises teen years are sometimes best remembered as a long-ago vacation.
May 26, 2006
The strongest directorial debut of the year.
July 30, 2012
A surprisingly intricate struggle with absence, grief, and memory.
July 24, 2007
It's yet another case of blame-the-parents, and, more precisely, blame-the-overprotective-mother.
